1 Thaler - George of Brunswick

George of Brunswick-Lüneburg served as Administrator of Bremen from 1558 until his death in 1566 — a Protestant holding a Catholic ecclesiastical title, which was a deliberately calculated political arrangement following the Reformation's disruption of northern German church governance. The Archbishopric had effectively become a battleground between Lutheran and Catholic interests, and secular princes of the Brunswick line were installed as administrators precisely to prevent Rome from reasserting direct control over the see.

Jungk 219 is scarce by any measure. Bremen's thalers of this period were struck in small runs, and attrition from subsequent meltdowns during the Thirty Years' War removed a significant portion of surviving stock.